Guildhall

CHIPPING NORTON MIDDLE ROW SP 3027-3127 (east side) 3/58 Guildhall 23.4.52 GV II Former Guildhall, now council offices. Circa 1500-20, extended in the early C18 and the C19 of rubblestone covered with roughcast, stone dressings and a stone tiled roof gabled at the N end and half hipped at the S. Originally a 3-bay first floor hall with a 2-bay early C18 S extension and a one-bay C19 N addition. Externally the early C16 features on the hall section are 2-light mullions with Tudor arched heads to the E and a 3-light mullion on the W rear wall. At ground floor level on the E front is a doorway with a four-centred head, spandrels carved with quatrefoils and mouchettes and chamfered jambs. Other features on this front include an early C18 depressed archway. Inside the hall section has an early C16 timber roof structure with 2 bays of principal rafters, collars and arch- bracing corbels and trenched purlins.

Listing NGR: SP3138527230